The
oldest known school is King's School, Canterbury, England, a medieval
cathedral school thought to be founded in AD 597. Throughout
history, people of means have been sending their children to schools to be
educated, or hiring the best tutors. For others, if the
children were lucky, they were "home schooled".
School archives
and yearbooks can be great places to find information about your ancestors.
In Canada education is a Provincial matter and LAC tells us that most
records were kept with the school, or sent to the local School Board. Except
for Indian Schools which were under Federal jurisdiction,
Department of Indian Affairs. UK National Archives gives us similar
advice, saying to check with the local schools or archives, and the USA
school records are also local.
While roaming around the internet,
looking for my ancestors in Compton, I happened upon an article
about King's Hall School for Girls, founded in 1864 as Compton Ladies'
College for the Anglican elite of the Diocese of Quebec (It later merged
with Bishops College, the boys’ school). So I poked around some more and found an
old yearbook for King's Hall. The earlier books don't have
individual photos but at the back of all the books is a section on what
past students are up to - who got engaged, married, had
babies, travelling, etc.
Doing a more in-depth search I found many schools and
colleges have yearbooks or registers online, and more are added every
year. One school I found that has yearbooks online is West Hill High, the
school my father (Thomas Seale) and his siblings attended.
AS well as noted below, on my FaceBook page, under Files in the page menu, there is a Schools document with links to yearbooks and registers for schools and colleges in Canada, US and the UK. For more school books and info, search at Internet Archive (archive.org) or Our Roots using the keywords "school yearbooks", "college registers", "[school name] yearbooks", "school record" .
Do you know what schools your ancestors attended?
Relevant Links:
Internet Archive- schools include Ashbury College (Ottawa), Trinity College School (Port Hope), and Selwyn House School (Montreal)
Lost Schools of English Montreal (West Hill and Monklands) Use left MENU to Yearbooks:
University of Manchester UK - Register of graduates 1851-1958:
Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière 1827-1927:
Collège de Lévis 1941-1942
A History of Upper Canada College, 1829-1892
Memorials of Acadia College and Horton Academy (Nova Scotia), 1828-1878
King's Hall School for Girls, Compton and Bishops College
McGill University Yearbooks
Official Register of Officers and acting Midshipmen: United States Naval Academy
Annual Register of the United States Naval Academy
Florida Baptist Academy Catalogue 1913-1914
Annual Register of the Free Academy of the City of New York (several 1860-1920)
The Eton Register
Board of education, public school teachers, medical inspectors, truant officers pertaining to the public schools of Cumberland County, NJ 1913-1914
Dissenting Academies Online (search academies, tutors, students)
Catalogue of Graduates of the University of Dublin from 1595-1866
Mail Book of the Living Graduates of Hamilton College (NY) 1890
Officers, students and graduates of the Kansas State Agricultural College
The Beamer: Bradford Durfee Textile School yearbook (several years)
American Institute of Mining Engineers
Schools and Teachers of the Province of Ontario (many years 1912+)
College of Physicians and Surgeons 1880-1900 Baltimore
Memorials of the class of 1833 of Harvard College
Memorials of the graduates of Harvard university, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, commencing with the first class, MDCXLII
Memorials of old Haileybury College (India)
Kronau School #428 (Sask), 1896-1964
Schomberg and its school - Ontario (S.S. No. 14,King)
Carstairs School Days, Alberta
Antelope Park School District No. 3464 (Sask)
Wetaskiwin Alexandra High School
Liste des élèves de l'École Normale Jacques-Cartier 1905
College Greetings - Illinois Woman's College(several years)
Roll of the graduates of the University of Aberdeen, 1860-1900
The Tower – York Junior College year book, PA- 1945 (incl those serving in WWII)
AS well as noted below, on my FaceBook page, under Files in the page menu, there is a Schools document with links to yearbooks and registers for schools and colleges in Canada, US and the UK. For more school books and info, search at Internet Archive (archive.org) or Our Roots using the keywords "school yearbooks", "college registers", "[school name] yearbooks", "school record" .
Do you know what schools your ancestors attended?
Relevant Links:
Internet Archive- schools include Ashbury College (Ottawa), Trinity College School (Port Hope), and Selwyn House School (Montreal)
Lost Schools of English Montreal (West Hill and Monklands) Use left MENU to Yearbooks:
University of Manchester UK - Register of graduates 1851-1958:
Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière 1827-1927:
Collège de Lévis 1941-1942
A History of Upper Canada College, 1829-1892
Memorials of Acadia College and Horton Academy (Nova Scotia), 1828-1878
King's Hall School for Girls, Compton and Bishops College
McGill University Yearbooks
Dissenting Academies Online (search academies, tutors, students)
Catalogue of Graduates of the University of Dublin from 1595-1866
Mail Book of the Living Graduates of Hamilton College (NY) 1890
Officers, students and graduates of the Kansas State Agricultural College
The Beamer: Bradford Durfee Textile School yearbook (several years)
American Institute of Mining Engineers
Schools and Teachers of the Province of Ontario (many years 1912+)
College of Physicians and Surgeons 1880-1900 Baltimore
Memorials of the class of 1833 of Harvard College
Memorials of the graduates of Harvard university, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, commencing with the first class, MDCXLII
Memorials of old Haileybury College (India)
Kronau School #428 (Sask), 1896-1964
Schomberg and its school - Ontario (S.S. No. 14,King)
Carstairs School Days, Alberta
Antelope Park School District No. 3464 (Sask)
Wetaskiwin Alexandra High School
Liste des élèves de l'École Normale Jacques-Cartier 1905
College Greetings - Illinois Woman's College(several years)
Roll of the graduates of the University of Aberdeen, 1860-1900
The Tower – York Junior College year book, PA- 1945 (incl those serving in WWII)
Toledo Central High School Almanac yearbook - 1911 and 1914
The Castle Howell School Record - Lancaster, w/list of students from beginning
Torontonensis, 1899 - University of Toronto
The Castle Howell School Record - Lancaster, w/list of students from beginning
Torontonensis, 1899 - University of Toronto
Clemson University
De La Salle Secondary School, Fanling, Hong Kong 1965-1971
War Time Graduates of McGill (Montreal Gazette 1943)
Annuaire Universite Laval
Ballarat Schools - Australia
De La Salle Secondary School, Fanling, Hong Kong 1965-1971
War Time Graduates of McGill (Montreal Gazette 1943)
Annuaire Universite Laval
Ballarat Schools - Australia
Speaking of oldest so to speak Read this today and as we will be there soon found it interesting http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-27238503
ReplyDeleteDo you know if Oxford University has photos of students that attended in the 1660's?
ReplyDeleteThere is a register of alumni:
Delete"The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714: Their Parentage, etc..."
https://archive.org/details/alumnioxoniense00fostgoog